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Born in Poole, Dorset, in 1965, Sedley Proctor grew up in London and was educated in Winchester and Nottingham. In the 1990s, he worked in fringe theatre and was involved in productions of Macbeth and Bertolt Brecht’s In the Jungle of Cities. His own play, Salt Lake Psycho about the notorious murderer, Gary Gilmore was put on at the now defunct Man in the Moon theatre in London, Chelsea. From the mid-nineties until 2013 he lived and worked as a teacher and translator in Southern Italy. In Italy he continued to experiment with his writing, devising an invented dialect, writing a blog satirizing the international politics of the early 2000s, collaborating on a screenplay with French writer, Claude Albanese, and performing his poetry in front of bemused locals and amused ex-pats. Apart from his own books, he writes under the aliases F. M. Frites and M. T. Sands.
Mitsu could not sleep. When he did, it was a restless kind of sleep that had him striving to remember his REM thoughts even as he dreamed them. When he did, the flooding of the sea wall was happening all over again, and Unit 1 was about to explode as he bobbed up and down …
Micha was a young widow from Simrl. She’d come to Agartha in the third week of March to do business with an old client of her dead husband called Whistling only to find the city in shutdown. The inns were all closed and the streets were deserted. Finally, she managed to find Whistling’s servant, who …
They made the switch without a hitch. Zee dropped the newspaper, and Ali picked it up smiling white-teethed as he slipped the fiche between the sheets. Zee walked on in one fell motion – daring not to look back. Up ahead was a check-point Charlie Zee had passed through numerous times. Once even with Gillespie …
Ay Ling, also known of Whiff of Gunpowder, had always been a red. Jin Ling had always been a black. When, in a curious twist of fate, the revolution started, their roles were reversed. Ay Ling was brought to the compound to be denounced for her association with the blacks. Ay Ling was made to …
When Tut succeeded the throne, Aye was appointed his vizier as he had been for Tut’s father and grandfather. Three years into his reign, Tut came to Aye and related his dream in which Amun had told him to rebuild his temple. When Tut ordered the building of the temple to Amun, Aye bided his …
A man with a hump is often a dupe, but the hunchback was determined not to be. The Duke was in love with a young lady living incognito in the merchant’s quarter. “She looks so fine,” he said, “her cheeks blush like red wine.” The hunchback hurried home and found his daughter at prayers. “Put …
Mota was a fat, old snake sold to Kohli the snake charmer for a few miserable rupee. When Kohli got him to dance to the pungi, Mota could barely lift his hood. To the crowd the pungi was magic, but to the snake it was a curse. As he raised his hood, Mota wanted to …
Capone stopped off at the drugstore to buy some milk. Baby Face took the bullet in his head. Capone reached for the carton, still swearing.
Blumlein was an odd, antagonistic individual – extremely fastidious. All his life he devoted himself to others, and particularly the Leipzig all male voice choir: Mario “Pidgeon” Piccioni and Toni “Twinkle Toes” Visconti whose feet rose on the high notes, and the baritone boys, Gerhardt and Stanic. In the middle of rehearsals as Twinkle Toes …
Lawrence did not have any friends. Lawrence did not have any enemies. Lawrence did not have any girls or boys for that matter. Josey, who was quick on her feet, ran a mile.